Palo Alto, CA – March 2, 2016 – A new in-depth study from the Radicati Group provides key data and statistics on business and consumer adoption of Email and Mobile Email. The study provides data on the number of business and consumer users and accounts broken out by region for North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific and Rest of World (RoW). It also provides user demographics, installed base of on-premises vs. cloud email accounts, breakouts by business size, vertical industry, email traffic volumes, average number of daily emails sent and received per user, email storage data, and data on the average number of spam emails and malware attacks.

According to the study, the number of worldwide email users, including both business and consumer users, will grow from over 2.6 billion in 2016 to over 3.0 billion by 2020. The number of emails sent and received will total over 215 billion per day in 2016. Email use continues to see strong growth in the business world, as well as with consumers where it is used mainly for e-Commerce activities (e.g. notifications, online sales, etc.), rather than just interpersonal communication.